Much ado about boobies

Look at what smut-peddlers the folks at Ranger Rick have become:




I mean, would it have killed them to put 'these birds' in place of one 'boobies'?
Reminds me vaguely of when my fourth grade art teacher Mrs Pope was asking us to bring in magazines to use as guides for drawing wildlife (incidentally, Mrs Pope was about 400 lbs and drove a conversion van with a horn that played 'Heart of Dixie'...in suburban Chicago). She said, 'C'mon kids, I know you have plenty of copies of Ranger Dick sitting around.' And just in case she wasn't 100% sure I wouldn't rupture my spleen laughing she said 'Ranger Dick' like twelve more times.

Father/Son movie night

It's been 25 years since I saw a Star Wars movie. But how many times can you hear a 7 year old say 'Count Douku' before curiosity gets the best of you? I'll say this about the Wii game Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga: somehow Owen knew all the characters and plot twists before seeing episode III so there must be some learning component. I thought the movie was excellent but if I didn't have human cliff notes sitting next to me, I might've gotten lost. I tried to throw random words around to impress Owen: "Empire, Wookie, Endor" but I was about 50/50 with the eye rolls. I will say this -- one of us thought (prior to actually seeing the end) Yoda died at the end of episode III but, c'mon, you gotta have some common sense.

Snow Day

My fault for not bringing the flip camera but you should've seen the events at the sledding hill a couple hours ago. We had Ben and Diego tussling in a driving blizzard with Owen sledding past on a hill so windswept that after 4 inches of snow there were still grassy patches. If you can imagine driving snow, an unsophisticated camera, a low angle and squinting a little, you could've been convinced that it was a fight between a wolf and a baby polar bear next to the Olympic luge course.

New kid on the block

Here is Bennison Tennison or Ben for short:



We got him Saturday from a guy on Lon Gisland. He's a 2nd generation Labradoodle, which means both his parents are Labradoodles, in case you happen to not be dog-obsessed. He's very friendly and agreeable but not so housebroken.

He is 11 weeks old and already weighs ~ 16 lbs. By my calculation that means he'll grow up to be 642 lbs.

You Be Google - V

Why would

1) you wanna break up?

2) the world end in 2012?

3) you like to work for us?

4) my period be late?

5) you like to work for starbucks?

6) a guy ignore you?